Davey Johnson Starts Movember Early
The Washington Nationals currently have the second worst batting average in the Majors and, suffice it to say, manager Davey Johnson is hoping to change things.
By not shaving.
Remember when your principal would promise to sit in a dunk tank or your boss would offer to shave his head if/when you reached a certain milestone? Yeah...the Nats skipper is pulling a "Nard...
Lombardozzi, Zimmermann Lead Nats To Encouraging Win Over Phillies
After a long road trip filled with disappointing losses, the Washington Nationals (25-23) celebrated their homecoming with a solid 5-2 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies.
The Nationals have been waiting for their injury-riddled lineup to come alive, and the bats showed signs of stirring in the 53-degree weather on Friday night. The offense put together 10 hits to score...
Jordan Zimmermann pitches Nats past Phils
Jordan Zimmermann (8-2) has been the ace of the Washington Nationals staff all season. So after a relatively brutal west coast swing, the Nats were glad to come home with Zimmermann on the mound. He delivered on the mound and became Major League Baseball's first eight game winner.
Zimmermann tossed 7 strong innings scattering 6 hits and allowing 2 runs to earn his...
Nationals' Espinosa has broken wrist
Danny Espinosa's .163 batting average makes a lot more sense. He's been playing with a broken wrist.
Washington Nationals manager Davey Johnson said Friday that his second baseman has a small fracture in the right wrist and will rest a few days to see if it improves.
Espinosa has been playing with discomfort since getting hit by a pitch April 14 against the Atlanta Braves...
Nationals Manager Davey Johnson Says he Won’t Shave Until Team Starts Hitting
The Washington Nationals like a number of other teams that were expected to accomplish big things this season, have struggled so far. The Nationals 24-23 record is respectable, but they’re second-worst hitting team in the major leagues sporting a woeful .225 average.
Well, according a story via Yahoo! Sports, Nationals manager Davey Johnson, is trying everything he can to get...
About that pitch that broke Danny Espinosa's wrist back on April 14
Ouch! There's the pitch that broke Danny Espinosa's wrist back in April. Screencaps via MASN/MLB.com.
"I was thinking after a couple weeks some of it would start to go away. And before we went on the California trip, I said when
we get home, I want to get it checked out again. It's not getting worse,
but by no means has it gotten any better. So I wanted...
Nationals' Espinosa has broken bone in right wrist
Washington Nationals second baseman Danny Espinosa has a broken bone in his right wrist and will rest a few days to see if it improves.
Manager Davey Johnson said Friday that Espinosa has been playing with discomfort since getting hit by a pitch April 14 against the Atlanta Braves. Espinosa also has a bone chip in the wrist, but the main concern is a small fracture that needs time...
Gameday: Phillies (23-24) at Nationals (24-23)
Philadelphia Phillies (23-24) at Washington Nationals (24-23)
Kyle Kendrick (4-2, 2.82) v. Jordan Zimmerman (7-2, 1.62)
TIME: 7:05, Nationals Park
TV: CSN
Weather: 50′s, partly cloudy
Media: Twitter and Facebook
The Phillies are in Washington tonight for the start of a three game series with the Nationals. They will look to be reach the .500 mark for the first time since...
Dumpster Diving: Go Get Anthony Rendon
Welcome to Dumpster Diving, where we search for deep league pick-ups among the picked over. In this space we’ll highlight some of the good and bad lurking on the waiver wire in those deep mixed leagues (14+ teams) and NL/AL-only leagues. Today, let’s take it around the horn for some recommended additions across the diamond.Note: Ownership percentages are Yahoo, ESPNCatcherRussell...
Nats Minor League Leaders (5/24)
Here is a look at the Washington Nationals minor league system stat leaders.
BATTING LEADERS:
Batting Average: Eury Perez (AAA) .336, Jeff Kobernus (AAA) .333, Anthony Rendon (AA) .330, Jimmy Van Ostand (AA) .321
Slugging: Anthony Rendon (AA) .625, Brandon Miller (A) .509, Chris Marrero (AAA) .500, Wander Ramos (A) .598
On Base Percentage: Anthony Rendon ...
PIC: Gio Gonzalez wears shirt showing Nats pitching coach Steve McCatty in ‘Playgirl’
Tweet Steve McCatty was once a pitcher in the Major Leagues, playing with the Oakland Athletics in the late 70s and early 80s. Over that time, he accrued a career win-loss record of 63-63 and a career ERA of 3.99. He’s now the current pitching coach of the Washington Nationals. However, the more infamous note [...]
Rendon’s Hot-Streak Might Force Roster Moves
Anthony Rendon made a start at second base for the Harrisonburg Senators on Monday night. Could this be a direct reflection to the struggling second basemen on the Washington Nationals? The second base position is far from set on the Nationals. Your guess is as good as mine when it comes to who will be starting game to game. Espinosa is hitting a despicable .163 with 40 strikeouts...
Meet Gio Gonzalez's new puppy, "Stitch"
Move over, Hollywood. Gio Gonzalez got a new dog. Meet "Stitch".
There they are above, via a photo posted by Gio on Instagram Thursday night ("Me and the fat guy #stitch.") Heres to hoping Gio doesn't get rug burn on his forehead this time.
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Nationals Coach Was In Playgirl, So Naturally The Players Make T-Shirts To Honor Him
Well, this is something that I never thought I would be writing about: Photographic evidence that your coach posed for Playgirl in the 80’s. Nationals Steve McCatty’s 1984 Playgirl photograph was unearthed. So what do you do when you find out that your pitching coach was in Playgirl? MAKE T-SHIRTS WITH THE PHOTO ON IT. And this is just what the Nationals did. Gio Gonzalez modeled...
Video: Ryan Zimmerman on "A Night at the Park"
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Up above, CSNWashington.com video of Ryan Zimmerman talking about the fourth annual "A Night at the Park", which took place Thursday night at Nationals Park to support the ziMS Foundation. Good stuff. You can also make a donation to the ziMS foundation here.
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Another Sort-Of First for Bryce Harper
Even when I’m not trying to pay attention to Bryce Harper, he finds a way to capture my focus. Last night, I was seeing off a friend on the east side of Portland, and if I’d been thinking about any sport, it was hockey, since these are the days of the NHL playoffs. A TV was being projected onto one of the walls of the bar, and at first it was showing a minor-league hockey game...
The Washington Nationals Are Wearing Shirts With Their Pitching Coach’s Playgirl Photo On Them
Sure many women flock to Bryce Harper as the heartthrob of the Washington Nationals, but it’s actually their pitching coach, Steve McCatty who sends all the ladies into a tizzy. All the female fervor over McCatty reached it’s hunky pinnacle in 1984 when he was featured in a Playgirl pictorial. Next stop Beefcake City.
This tantalizing photo has all of the early 80′s sexuality...
Gio Gonzalez models shirt featuring Nationals pitching coach’s Playgirl photo
On Tuesday, Baseball Prospectus delivered one of the most strange and disconcerting but tremendously amusing posts in the site’s esteemed history. It featured images of what now can only be considered an ill-conceived gambit by Playgirl in the early 1980s where the magazine published beefcake photos of scantily clad MLB players on its pages in [...]The post Gio Gonzalez models...
Nationals players have shirts with pitching coach Steve McCatty posing for Playgirl on them (Picture)
Earlier this week, a rumor surfaced that Washington Nationals pitching coach Steve McCatty posed for Playgirl magazine in 1984. The folks at Baseball Prospectus later confirmed the speculation by digging up this photo and introducing it to the internet. As you might expect, it has been open season on McCatty in the Nationals’ clubhouse ever since. On Wednesday, Twitter user @JackoBeam...
Bryce Harper did everything except untuck his shirt yesterday...
Confront his fear of walls? Check (video here).
Hit an opposite field home run? Check (video here).
Make a great sliding catch in the eighth? Check (video here).
Hurt his knee again on that catch and scare the crap out of Davey Johnson late in the game because of said knee? Check ("It’s a little swollen." said Harper after the game).
Score...
Next up Washington, are they must win games?
Next up the Washington Nationals for the Memorial Day weekend. Is it too early to say these games are a must win? They are important and they might also help set the table for the season series. The Phillies who are on a two-game winning streak courtesy of Cliff Lee’s 3-0 shutout are two games back behind the second place Nationals.
The bats might be coming alive, the first being...
Nats closer rips Harper after miscue
It's been a rough couple of weeks for Nats' rising star Bryce Harper.
First, there was his embarrassing face-plant into the right-field wall at Dodger Stadium. Harper tried to track down a drive off the bat of A.J. Ellis but failed to remember the important part of the term "warning track."
Take a look for yourself.
OK, so maybe it's wise for him not to do...
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Nats mock coach's old Playgirl photo
We'd be remiss if we didn't post something about the t-shirt Dan Haren made for Nats pitchers featuring the pic of Steve McCatty in that 1984 issue of Playgirl, which officially blew up and became a "thing" on Tuesday: Haren got T-shirts of McCatty's Playgirl shot made today. "UNTUCK" on back. "Utter joy," Clippard said. "This is...
Bryce Harper Homers to Lead Nationals to Victory
Coming off of an extra-innings loss to the San Francisco Giants on Tuesday night, Washington Nationals outfielder Bryce Harper was determined to redeem himself following a ninth-inning outfield miscue that would ultimately cost Washington the game.Following five scoreless innings between both teams on Wednesday, Harper approached the plate in the top of the sixth-inning and slugged...
Nationals pitcher Rafael Soriano critical of Bryce Harper on ball that went over his head
Tweet The San Francisco Giants rallied from a 2-1 deficit heading into the bottom of the ninth inning Tuesday to eventually beat the Washington Nationals 4-2 in ten innings. On for the save in the ninth, Nationals closer Rafael Soriano had the Giants down to their last out. Then this happened. That’s a ball [...]
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